The LED notification on my Verizon Galaxy Nexus is shaky at best.
I mainly get notifications for Gmail and Google Voice texts. It seems as if it only sometimes actually work. It seems worse for the Gmail notifications, but there are many times that I pick up my phone and see that I have an email when there is no LED blinking.
I'm not sure if it just never came on or if it stops after a period of time, but what the heck is up with the LED? Why bother putting something on the phone as a feature and not having it work correctly.
I'm currently on a custom JB ROM, but it has only worked very inconsistently at stock on ICS and any of the other ROMs I've tried.
**** And yes, I know about Lightflow, but don't think we should have to use a 3rd party app to enable something that should already be working.
know8677 said:
The LED notification on my Verizon Galaxy Nexus is shaky at best.
I mainly get notifications for Gmail and Google Voice texts. It seems as if it only sometimes actually work. It seems worse for the Gmail notifications, but there are many times that I pick up my phone and see that I have an email when there is no LED blinking.
I'm not sure if it just never came on or if it stops after a period of time, but what the heck is up with the LED? Why bother putting something on the phone as a feature and not having it work correctly.
I'm currently on a custom JB ROM, but it has only worked very inconsistently at stock on ICS and any of the other ROMs I've tried.
**** And yes, I know about Lightflow, but don't think we should have to use a 3rd party app to enable something that should already be working.
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I am very new to my galaxy nexus but I've noticed that the LED basically only blinks for GT/whatsapp messages while for other apps/missed calls/sms it only blinks once at its very best, that's why I kind of forced myself to use lightflow. There are some custom JB roms like Liquid Jelly Bean that offer advanced LED management, you might want to try those.
waallen said:
I am very new to my galaxy nexus but I've noticed that the LED basically only blinks for GT/whatsapp messages while for other apps/missed calls/sms it only blinks once at its very best, that's why I kind of forced myself to use lightflow. There are some custom JB roms like Liquid Jelly Bean that offer advanced LED management, you might want to try those.
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Thanks!
I think I also read that the free version of LightFlow doesn't support Google Voice which is one of the main 2 notifications I get.
It's just very surprising that this feature of the phone works so poorly. And even more surprising that there aren't more people making noise about it.
know8677 said:
The LED notification on my Verizon Galaxy Nexus is shaky at best.
I mainly get notifications for Gmail and Google Voice texts. It seems as if it only sometimes actually work. It seems worse for the Gmail notifications, but there are many times that I pick up my phone and see that I have an email when there is no LED blinking.
I'm not sure if it just never came on or if it stops after a period of time, but what the heck is up with the LED? Why bother putting something on the phone as a feature and not having it work correctly.
I'm currently on a custom JB ROM, but it has only worked very inconsistently at stock on ICS and any of the other ROMs I've tried.
**** And yes, I know about Lightflow, but don't think we should have to use a 3rd party app to enable something that should already be working.
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I had the same problem, and I still think that LED notification isn't as good as what it should be...
If you have a custom JB ROM, I think your best option is to look for a CM10 rom, because in the screen settings, you can change the behaviour of the LED with different apps.
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Ive tried several roms and all seem to do the same thing. It may have even done it on the stock rom but I dont remember.
My LED notification when I get txts or emails is not blinking correctly. It will blink very irregularly for the first 15 seconds and then sometimes wont blink at all after that. Ive tried custom apps like go sms and an app that forces the light to come on at fixed intervals but it still wont work right, like something is conflicting with the light coming on.
Has anyone else experienced this or know a fix?
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Ive tried several roms and all seem to do the same thing. It may have even done it on the stock rom but I dont remember.
My LED notification when I get txts or emails is not blinking correctly. It will blink very irregularly for the first 15 seconds and then sometimes wont blink at all after that. Ive tried custom apps like go sms and an app that forces the light to come on at fixed intervals but it still wont work right, like something is conflicting with the light coming on.
Has anyone else experienced this or know a fix?
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What rom are you running now?
Im on bonsai and my led seems to be pretty good..
davidrules7778 said:
What rom are you running now?
Im on bonsai and my led seems to be pretty good..
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Im on the latest Frankenstein rom, but Ive tried the latest Bonsai one before this and it did it as well.
Theres others experiencing this as well but I havent found any fixes for it yet, even the apps they recommend dont work for me.
http://www.google.com/search?q=led+...&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&fp=506afe366bdeb92b
Try Missed Reminder
My configuration:
Start/Stop Service (Check)
Autostart (Check)
Everything else disabled.
Preferences settings for Missed SMS/MMS/Missed Calls/Missed Gmails
Turn the screen on (Unchecked)
Popup (Unchecked)
Vibrate (Unchecked)
Ringtone (Silent)
Blink Led (Unchecked)
Notification Intervals (1s)
Number of repeats (Forever)
I found that by using these settings, it forces the device to keep the LED blinking. I also found that you can then use apps with custom LED settings like Go SMS to change the color and LED blink rate with no problems.
Its always done this. Maybe one day we can get a fix. Sometimes mine works just fine and other times it is very sporadic.
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Ive tried several roms and all seem to do the same thing. It may have even done it on the stock rom but I dont remember.
My LED notification when I get txts or emails is not blinking correctly. It will blink very irregularly for the first 15 seconds and then sometimes wont blink at all after that. Ive tried custom apps like go sms and an app that forces the light to come on at fixed intervals but it still wont work right, like something is conflicting with the light coming on.
Has anyone else experienced this or know a fix?
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Same here. Always done this from day one. I had a brand new Epic, played around with it, and the LED crap never worked. On that particular phone, the PRL would never update so I took the phone back and got another one. PRL worked fine, and the LED on that phone did the same thing.
I also have the LED to set to keep blinking in Chomp SMS, and it does not work. I have ALWAYS gotten the sporadic LED blinks when I get a message, and then it disappears.
This has happened on the STOCK phone out of the box, as well as with DK28 and Bonsai 2.0.1.
So regardless of the ROM you use, you're still going to be out of luck. Until Samsung can get this fixed...hopefully in the new Froyo build coming out next week, then you are stuck, just like many other people are.
I have not tried that program that was posted by Isira, but you may give it a try and see if that fixes your problem. I tried a program similar way in the beginning and it didn't work.
It's worth a shot though. But Samsung knows its a problem, and that's all there is to it. You're stuck with it, just like me.
UPDATE I just tried the program and so far it seems to work. My SMS is still blinking. Not quite a true second like it is set, but it is blinking. I'll keep testing it, but you may give it a try.
I did try the missed reminder app and messed around with the settings but it still blinked sporadically. On a side note I used the samsung tool to update to EB13 and stock 2.2 and the blinking seems back to normal...
The new message notification LED on my (new) LTE Gnex only flashes once or twice, just when the phone boots up. Doesn't flash when a new message arrives. I've tried disabling it, and re-enabling it in settings, but it just does not work. This does not seem normal, and I'm wondering if I need to return the phone, which I really don't want to do. I've already unlocked the bootloader and rooted, but still running the stock ROM.
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The new message notification LED on my (new) LTE Gnex only flashes once or twice, just when the phone boots up. Doesn't flash when a new message arrives. I've tried disabling it, and re-enabling it in settings, but it just does not work. This does not seem normal, and I'm wondering if I need to return the phone, which I really don't want to do. I've already unlocked the bootloader and rooted, but still running the stock ROM.
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Have you tried Light Flow from the Market?
This has worked with the stock ROM.
I personally use Trackball Alert Pro - MoDaCo ROM has suppport for this.
Just tried calling myself, and hung up. The LED isn't lighting up. But I have seen it blink for emails at least. Hmm.. maybe try light flow.
justbabu said:
Have you tried Light Flow from the Market?
This has worked with the stock ROM.
I personally use Trackball Alert Pro - MoDaCo ROM has suppport for this.
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Have not tried any 3rd party apps, yet. First I wanted to know if there was a problem with my phone, or if this is "just" a bug. If others have this same problem, then I'll try a 3rd party solution. Thanks for the feedback.
Tried the same thing, called myself and sent messages with no led notification. Thought my led was broken but then installed light flow and it worked no problems.
Not sure how it was supposed to work stock but could not get it to work at all without a 3rd party app.
Without the app, the only option I could fight was pulse notifications which I tried turning on and rebooting but it never seemed to work.
maybemobile said:
Tried the same thing, called myself and sent messages with no led notification. Thought my led was broken but then installed light flow and it worked no problems.
Not sure how it was supposed to work stock but could not get it to work at all without a 3rd party app.
Without the app, the only option I could fight was pulse notifications which I tried turning on and rebooting but it never seemed to work.
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Thank you for the feedback. This is exactly the same behavior that I am seeing.
justbabu said:
Have you tried Light Flow from the Market?
This has worked with the stock ROM.
I personally use Trackball Alert Pro - MoDaCo ROM has suppport for this.
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Just tried light flow. When I tried the "test LED" function, my phone would no wake from sleep. Also got sleep of death when I got an email. Had to do a battery pull. Any solution for this?
I looked at Trackball Alert and it requires Paul's ROM, which I'm not ready to try (yet).
I noticed it doesn't light up when it's charging either. Is this normal behavior?
From what I've seen so far the stock light is a hit and miss for me. Only time will tell how they will improve this.
Do you have it set on? Lol that's all I can think of. Mine works fine
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ceredics said:
Do you have it set on? Lol that's all I can think of. Mine works fine
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Yes, mine is enabled.
Well its not your phone....The light stock is stupid I have no idea why you would include a light that only flashes random times and only in white..... I had issues with lightflow crashing my phone when waking with several notifications flashing. Just bite the bullet an flash ARHD or Paul's rom they both support Trackball notification and it works very well!!
Danny80y said:
Well its not your phone....The light stock is stupid I have no idea why you would include a light that only flashes random times and only in white..... I had issues with lightflow crashing my phone when waking with several notifications flashing. Just bite the bullet an flash ARHD or Paul's rom they both support Trackball notification and it works very well!!
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I don't think these two have a CDMA/LTE ROM yet, do they?
cam30era said:
I don't think these two have a CDMA/LTE ROM yet, do they?
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I'm pretty sure ARHD has 2 versions...gsm/lte
ceredics said:
Do you have it set on? Lol that's all I can think of. Mine works fine
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Yep. Probably don't have/use most apps that support it for me to notice it all the time.
I've been having the same trouble. Haven't seen the light in days.
I went back and revisited some of my settings. I had turned on the setting for the screen to "stay awake while charging." I unchecked it, and now my light is working again.
Now, it only ever comes on when the screen is off to begin with. It won't come on if the notification happens while it's already on.
But at least the light comes on when the screen is off now!
(And I really wish the blink rate was higher. You can look at it for several seconds between blinks, and think there's nothing and look away.)
So the change I made to the settings seems to have fixed the light issue. I have been properly getting notifications since I turned off the keep awake. Seems like an easy enough to fix bug as long as they know about it.
But now what I want is a faster blink rate. One second on out of every 6 or 7 seconds is easy to miss.
Is anyone else running 4.1.1 and Light Flow experiencing occasional problems with SMS/MMS LED notifications (stock messaging app)?
Most of the time (9 out of 10) the LED activates correctly, but the other 1 out of 10 times I get no LED for SMS/MMS. I have tried uninstalling, clearing cache/dalvik and reinstalling, but still having the problem. All other LED notifications for other applications function 100% correct.
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Is anyone else running 4.1.1 and Light Flow experiencing occasional problems with SMS/MMS LED notifications (stock messaging app)?
Most of the time (9 out of 10) the LED activates correctly, but the other 1 out of 10 times I get no LED for SMS/MMS. I have tried uninstalling, clearing cache/dalvik and reinstalling, but still having the problem. All other LED notifications for other applications function 100% correct.
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on ICS using the CM built in LED control, It would fail to light up once every so often for SMS, so maybe it's just a common problem...
There is an issue with Lightflow and JB that the dev has yet to fix. I would send him an email just to make sure that he/she is aware of it.
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Same exact thing going on for me.
Lightflow
I have been having a few issues with LightFlow, sometimes it will not show up, and other times it will be the wrong color. I have SMS/MMS set to red light always on, but often times it will flash white instead (which if I remember correctly is the default setting for the phone.
LightFlow is always running and active but sometimes it just doesn't want to cooperate.
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on ICS using the CM built in LED control, It would fail to light up once every so often for SMS, so maybe it's just a common problem...
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Anyone on a stock (or non-CM/AOKP) ROM that can confirm if SMS/MMS LED notifications work 100% for them?
Lightflow still isn't FULLY optimized yet. To make it work properly, open the app, and then don't swipe it from the recent screen. I am too had this problem.
Happens to me as well. Sometimes the notification gets "stuck;" continuing to flash for no apparent reason.
Still, I would rather live through the small bugs then go back to native led notifications.
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El Daddy said:
Happens to me as well. Sometimes the notification gets "stuck;" continuing to flash for no apparent reason.
Still, I would rather live through the small bugs then go back to native led notifications.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
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This is how I feel about it too, it works more than it doesn't and when it breaks it is so minor I don't lose my **** over it
I'm trying to get this AT&T SGS3 set up for my wife (mostly stock firmware), and she wants something that has both repeating SMS notifications and the ability to have different notification tones for different people sending her messages. IT appears that "SMS Popup" supports this (but still allows her to use the default SMS app for normal reading and composing.)
However, I'm finding that the LED doesn't seem to work well with the application: No matter what "blink rate" I set, the LED will stay steady on. Even a custom blink rate of "1000ms on, 5000ms off" results in a steady, always on LED. As well, it seems impossible to get the LED color configured to something reasonable. For example, I configure magenta, and I get yellow. I configure yellow and I get white. I configure red and I get a bright cyan.
(When I configure SMS popup on the international SGS3 (i9300), the LED options work fine.)
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Gary
Not a solution, but it's not just you. Essentially, Samsung buggered up the implementation of the LED on the North American S3 and 3rd party devs are having a heck of a time working around it.
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Not a solution, but it's not just you. Essentially, Samsung buggered up the implementation of the LED on the North American S3 and 3rd party devs are having a heck of a time working around it.
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Has anyone managed to work around it yet? The source for SMS popup is GPL'd, so it'd be mostly trivial for me to patch in a fix (assuming a fix was known.)
If not, I guess I'll have to spend some time this weekend examining the LED support in the kernel and trying to reverse engineer whatever samsung did.
Fyi , the AT&T OTA that came out today changes the notification light to blink instead of being solid-on.
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I'm confused... the stock firmware (from before this update) would blink on "stock" notifications (such as email, SMS, etc), and stay steady on the charging LED.
The issue, it seems, is with 3rd party apps that try to use the LED (such as SMS Popup) - in that case, the LED would get stuck ON.
Are you saying that this update resolves the stock on for 3rd party apps?
Gary
Use Liteflow. It will do everything you mention and it works correctly with the LED.
rkennison said:
Use Liteflow. It will do everything you mention and it works correctly with the LED.
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I'd prefer to avoid lightflow (and other system-wide notification handlers)... I've seen too many issues with it related to wakelocks.
(I know some people disagree with me about lightflow. That's nice and we are entitled to disagree on that, but please don't drag this thread into a discussion on the merits of lightflow, if it does or doesn't have issues, etc.)
Take care
Gary
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Are you saying that this update resolves the stock on for 3rd party apps?
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To answer my own question, the OTA (LH9) does seem to resolve any LED issues from 3rd party apps... both blinking issues AND color issues.
If you are willing to dump the stock sms ap. It seems that after this latest firmware update, in Handcent sms the colors now work correctly. Also I am able to get some different blink rates. I have not tried many though.
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I have a question regarding notification lights, I'm running CM10 with the stock CM kernel.
I came across the custom notification light feature, which is very useful. I currently have 4 colours set for 4 different apps. They work great, but the issue I have is multiple notifications. If I get say, a red notification, and then a blue one, only the red shows. Is there any way to have them alternate or is this an OS / kernel limitation?
I purchased LightFlow a while back for another phone, and have tried on this phone and it does it, but I'm not sure what phone performance/battery is like with it turned on, so if there's a way to do it natively in the OS I'd prefer that method of course.
Anyone know if this is possible without a 3rd party app?
i wouldnt mind knowing this as well... since lightflow i cannot use until the battery drain issue is resolved ...
so far i have not found a way at all... i dont think there is... which is succky